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Posts Tagged ‘unsustainable’
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Jun 12th, 2010,
Haulage, or the commercial transport of goods by road, aka road freight, is a little discussed, but important environmental issue. The environmental impact of haulage is considered to be significantly higher than freight by rail or sea, due to its heavy production of pollution and greenhouse gasses. The damage and congestion inflicted upon roads is also an expensive burden on infrastructure. Haulers – ‘hauliers’ in the UK – drive massive trucks called semis, tractor-trailers, 18 wheelers or big rigs in the US – ‘lorries’ in the UK – loaded with goods for transport from A to B. The haulage industry…
Tags: David Mitchell, environmental, freight, greenhouse gasses, haulage, haulers, hauliers, impact, lorries, Pollution, road, soap box, UK, unsustainable, US
Climate Change, Politics, Science & Technology, Jun 3rd, 2010,
A UN report entitled ‘Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production’, released Wednesday, states that eating less meat and dairy is necessary to avoid catastrophic effects of climate change, global hunger and energy shortages. From an article in the Guardian: As the global population surges towards a predicted 9.1 billion people by 2050, western tastes for diets rich in meat and dairy products are unsustainable, says the report from United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) international panel of sustainable resource management. There’s been a bit of a back and forth regarding how much the meat and dairy industries contribute to…
Tags: Climate change, consumption, dairy, emissions, environment, environmental, food, global warming, impact, meat, production, report, UN, unsustainable, vegetarian
Climate Change, Green living, Videos & Documentaries, Feb 5th, 2010,
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) argues that ‘growth isn’t possible’ in a new report that challenges the current dominant global growth-based economic ideal. The thesis is that unlimited economic expansion is unsustainable, and factors in climate change and the inherent finite nature of the Earth’s natural resources. This report concludes that a new macro economic model is needed, one that allows the human population as a whole to thrive without having to relying on ultimately impossible, endless increases in consumption. –New Economics Foundation As a simple way to convey the general idea that lifestyles and economies based on consumption are…
Tags: economics, environmental, growth, hamster, impossible, NEF, New Economics Foundation, unsustainable
